Buy this book on-line PARSONS, : : CITY OF THE SHARP-NOSED FISH - GREEK LIVES IN ROMAN EGYPTLONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,2007. ISBN 9780297645887.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,colour pictorial artwork illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges with a small closed tear to upper wrap's bottom, right-hand corner.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean,publisher's original,plain red cloth boards with crisp,bright,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate fragmented papyrus illustrated ndeaperps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,x-xxviiipp+1-258pp [paginated] includes illustrations list/table,timeline,a glossary,author preface,a prologue,12 chapters,an epilogue,24pp contemporary b/w+colour photographs/illus in 3 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp66/7,pp130/1 and pp194/5 respectively,a bibliography,notes and an index; plus [unpaginated] half- title+title pages,contents list/table, Roman emperors+Egyptian months and years lists,note on sources and a b/w map.
In 1897 two Oxford archaeologists began digging a series of low sand-covered mounds a hundred miles south of Cairo,on a side branch of the Nile.They turned out to be the rubbish-dumps of an administrative centre and thriving city at the time of the Roman Empire - Oxrhynchos ('City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish') - inhabited by descendants of the Greek immigrants who had colonized Egypt after Alexander the Great's conquest in 332 BC.
When Grenfall and Hunt had finally finished,ten years later - battling against sandstorms,theft and the sheer size of their discovery - they had uncovered,amidst the rubbish,500,000 fragments of papyrus.The papyri were shipped back to Oxford and the task of deciphering these fragments began.It is still going on today.These papyri are a unique treasure-trove of original books and documents,in which lost masterpieces of Greek literature not seen by human eyes since the fall of Rome,and fragments of censored Christian Gospels,rub shoulders with tax returns,petitions,private letters,sales documents,loans,leases,wills and shopping-lists.What the excavators had found was the entire life and culture of a flourishing market-town,encapsulated in its waste paper.We hear the voices of beekeepers and boat-makers,dyers and donkey-drivers,weavers and wine-merchants, set against the great events of their age - the climax and crisis of the Roman Empire and the coming of Christianity.
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